Syphilitic diseases : their pathology, diagnosis, and treatment, including experimental researches on inoculation, as a differential agent in testing the character of these affections / by John C. Egan.

  • Egan, John C.
Date:
1853
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Credit: Syphilitic diseases : their pathology, diagnosis, and treatment, including experimental researches on inoculation, as a differential agent in testing the character of these affections / by John C. Egan. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    IRRITABLE BLADDER. 07 quantity voided being always of necessity trifling, and not unfrequently tinged with blood ; a sense of extreme lassitude and pain is referred to the loins, and much uneasiness is experienced at the extremity of the penis, and about the verge of the anus; considerable constitutional disturbance is evinced, and loss of rest from continued irrita- tion adds to the patient's sufferings. In this stage of the complaint, owing to the urgent nature of the symptoms, suspicion of calculus in the bladder has been frequently excited in the mind of the medical attendant; who, in his search after a foreign body, has been known to exasperate the individual's al- ready miserable condition, by the introduction of a sound into that viscus. The diagnosis is, however, easily made, and a little reflection will soon en- able us to arrive at the true character of the dis- ease. In the subjects of stone, pain is invariably experienced when the fluid contents of the bladder have been completely discharged ; in those labour- ing from the effects of the complaint under con- sideration, the uneasiness is only present when the organ is subjected to the stimulus of the urine. The acute form of the disease, characterized by the symptoms just enumerated, after having continued for a period of longer or shorter duration, lapses into a more chronic condition. The urine presents a whey-like character, and acquires an ammoniacal odour. It is often mixed with blood, and with it are ejected flakes of coagulable lymph, and a white H